LIVE: Moscow claims it killed five Ukrainian troops who crossed into Russia

Ukraine rejected the report, calling it fake news, and said no Ukrainian forces were present in the Rostov region where the incident was alleged to have taken place

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Bajarang Dal activist murdered in Karnataka town

A Bajarang Dal activist was stabbed to death in this district headquarters town, police said Monday. Harsha, 23 was allegedly stabbed to death by unknown assailants Sunday night, PTI reported. The town had recently seen disruption in some colleges over the hijab row.

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EC sends notice to BJP candidate in UP elections

The Election Commission on Sunday issued a notice to a BJP candidate in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly making an inflammatory statement, and said he prima facie violated the model code and electoral law.s Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh, a candidate in Tiloi assembly constituency in Amethi, has 24 hours to respond.

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India reports 16,051 new Covid-19 cases

India reports 16,051 new cases of Covid-19 and 206 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours, said the health ministry on Monday. 

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Red lights for green mobility as govt picks EVs over charging networks

In prioritising electric vehicles (EV) over charging networks, India may have followed the wrong path towards creating an EV ecosystem, perhaps delaying its adoption. In the meantime, neighbouring China has taken a giant leap. More on that story here

 

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No Deltacron variant found in India so far

So far, the Deltacron variant has not been spotted in India, government sources have told Business Standard. However, the scale of genome sequencing of Covid-positive samples will be increased four-fold — from 10,000 samples per month to 8,000-10,000 a week.